Installing BackTrack to DVD or USB Thumb Drive

You can download the free BackTrack ISO at www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/. This chapter covers the bt4-final.iso ISO image, released on January 11, 2010. Microsoft’s newer versions of Windows (Vista and 7) include built-in functionality to burn an ISO image to DVD, but Windows XP by default cannot. If you’d like to make a BackTrack DVD using Windows XP, you’ll need to use DVD-burning software such as Nero or Roxio. One of the better free alternatives to those commercial products is ISO Recorder from Alex Feinman. You’ll find that freeware program at http://isorecorder.alex-feinman.com/isorecorder.htm. Microsoft recommends ISO Recorder as part of its MSDN program. After you download and install ISO Recorder, you can right-click ISO file and select the Copy Image to CD/DVD option, shown in Figure 7-1, and then click Next in the ISO Recorder Record CD/DVD dialog box (see Figure 7-2).

Figure 7-1. Open with ISO Recorder

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